It's great news that Donald Trump cited President Eisenhower's Operation Wetback (without using the term) in part of the SIXTY MINUTES interview that CBS, not surprisingly, chose not to broadcast last Sunday. I thought this Eisenhower feat was one of a number of immigration tricks Trump left on the table in his obviously restrained performance in the September 16 debate.

It's also very striking that CBS talking head Scott Pelley clearly had absolutely no idea what Trump was talking about. When pressed on deportation, Trump set him up by asking (1:47 on the video) "Did you like Dwight Eisenhower as a President at all?" Pelley blusters stupidly "Well, I wasn't around during President Eisenhower's Administration..." before unguardedly agreeing: "He was a great American." Trump then springs the Operation Wetback trap: "He did this, with over a million people," adding helpfully "a lot of people don't know that." Pelley changes the subject.